The album's cover features a withered starving African child's hand being held and dwarfed by a white man's hand.

The album's lead single, " She's Every Woman " peaked at number-one on the Billboard Country Chart, however its follow-up single, " The Fever " ( a cover of an Aerosmith song ) only peaked at number 23, becoming Brooks's first released Country single to not chart on the Top 10.

The album's cover, which " shows lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife's ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts ," was considered to be too suggestive for most retailers, many of which were reluctant to stock the album.

The album's lead single was a cover of Bad Company's " Feel Like Makin ' Love ".

Although the children are not shown from the front, the cover was controversial at the time of the album's release.

When being photographed for the album's cover, Potger was replaced by Ray – his day job with the Australian Broadcasting Commission ( ABC ) as a radio producer barred him from involvement in a commercial enterprise.

Although the album's cover features the original line-up of Kool Keith, Ced Gee, Moe Love and TR Love, TR ( along with Tim Dog ) is notably absent.

Hipgnosis's first Genesis album cover was for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which featured a male model, credited simply as " Omar ", portraying the album's protagonist " Rael ".

The album's cover photograph – which showed the three band members posing with their shirts unbuttoned, on a tropical beach – engendered no small amount of ridicule, with Palmer complaining the group looked like disco stars the Bee Gees.

Dressed on the cover all in leather, the album's singles " A Little More Love " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 94 Country, No. 4 AC ), " Deeper than the Night " ( No. 11 Pop, No. 87 Country, No. 4 AC ), and the title track ( No. 52 Pop ) all demonstrated a more aggressive and uptempo sound for Newton-John.

The album's cover and in-sleeve photos were taken from the film, Tiger Bay, which starred Hayley Mills.

Although it had some progressive rock stylings, it also had a darker edge, suggested by the bedsit squalour on the album's cover.

He is reputed to have given the album its name by throwing a tomato at a showing of the art used for the album's cover.

The album's cover artwork was photographed and designed by Cal Schenkel and shows Van Vliet wearing the raw head of a carp, bought from a local fish market and fashioned into a mask by Schenkel.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said, " It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles ," leading to the inclusion of several cover versions after the all-original A Hard Day's Night ; the band's visible weariness on the album's cover is noted by narrator Malcolm McDowell during The Compleat Beatles.

John Lennon complained to EMI Australia at a meeting about the changes, but the cover remained the same until the album's release on compact disc in 1988.

The band's name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, " to create ," in Hamilton's words, " the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.

A painting of the band by " Patrick " ( John Byrne ) was at an earlier point under consideration to be used as the album's cover.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

Two weeks after the album's release, Martin was featured on the cover of Time with the title " Latin Music Goes Pop!

The album's cover and single artwork were undertaken by graffiti artist Banksy, with the single featuring a spoof image of the British Royal Family, replicated as a mural on the building.

The album's debut at number seventeen on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart has been the highest in her career.

" Guitarist Richard Thompson has openly acknowledged the album's influence on Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and journalist John Harris has suggested that The Band's debut also influenced the spirit of The Beatles ' back-to-basics album Let It Be as well as The Rolling Stones ' string of roots-infused albums that began with Beggars Banquet.

" Because Tolhurst was still on the payroll during the recording of Disintegration, he was credited in the album's liner notes as playing " other instruments ", however it has since been revealed that he contributed nothing to the album in either performance or song writing.

The form, texture and imagery of this album's first track Debra Kadabra, sung by Vliet, has ' angular similarities ' to the work he would later produce in his next three albums.

* The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praises the album but maintains that it has " loads of self-indulgent filler ," identifying " Revolution # 9 " in particular as " justly maligned ," and suggests that listeners in the CD era, who can program digital players to skip over unwanted tracks, may have an advantage over the album's original audience.

Over the years since the album's original release it has been recognized as a punk classic and one of the most influential punk records ever made by appearing on a number of " best of " lists by punk fans and critics alike.

Tommy Hall's sleeve-notes for the album, which advocated chemical agents ( such as LSD ) as a gateway to a higher, ' non-Aristotelian ' state of consciousness, has also contributed to the album's legendary status.

Lowery has been quoted in interviews as saying that, although the entire band ( save for Fichter ) played on the basic tracks, Greg Lisher was the only other member to have contributed significantly to the album's recording, with most of the overdubbing and studio polishing having been done by Lowery, Lisher and producer Dennis Herring.

Lisher's distinctive psychedelic lead guitar playing is arguably the album's most distinctive instrumental feature, although the band's use of violin also has a great influence on the sound of the record.

The only other song from … And Justice for All that has come close to this is " Harvester of Sorrow ", a song that was played live heavily after the album's release but has only begun to be played again recently.

Nash was also impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting " Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare which, of course, she has.

Perhaps more noteworthy, however, is the fact that every member of the group has contributed at least two songs per album, with only the following exceptions: On 1992's debut LP, Smeared, Scott and Pentland are credited with just one song each, while on 2003's Action Pact, Scott has no songs, for according to Eye Weekly, that album's producer, Tom Rothrock, essentially randomly selected tracks out of the band's submissions in the interest of creating a more streamlined sound.

Janet Jackson collaborated with former Prince associates Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on her third studio album Control ( 1986 ); the album's second single " Nasty " has been described as the origin of the new jack swing sound, a genre innovated by Teddy Riley.

The album's influence on music, including jazz, rock, and classical music, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums ever made.

The album's popularity continued to grow, however, and it has since been touted as a breakthrough achievement for the Beastie Boys.

The album's rankings near the top of many publications ' " best albums " lists in disparate genres has given Paul's Boutique critical recognition as a landmark album in hip hop.

" Considine would later say that the album's music " accurately sums up the controlled panic of combat that the Army itself has been using Slayer songs to psych its troops for military maneuvers in the Saudi desert ".

While " Still Standing, which featured cousin Ludacris, was originally intended to be released as the album's lead single, the label and the singer were not in agreement with the album's title track becoming the first single no track has been for more than a year.

The album's title consists of two opposing parentheses, representing either the album's two halves, or the idea that the album has no title, leaving the listener free to determine it.

As Sherrod and Hart had not participated in the initial sessions, four new tracks were recorded with producer Steve Lillywhite including the album's first single " Don't Stop Now ".

Sundazed Records reissued Torrence's Save for a Rainy Day in 1996 in CD and vinyl formats, as well as the collector's vinyl 45 " companion EP, " Sounds For A Rainy Day ," featuring four instrumentals versions of the album's tracks.

The album's track " Jim's Blues ", with Plant on harmonica, was the first studio track to feature all four members of the future Led Zeppelin.

The group released four singles and an EP —" The Only One ", " Freakshow ", " Sleep When I'm Dead ", " The Perfect Boy " and Hypnagogic States respectively — on or near to the 13th of each month, in the months leading up to the album's release.

Despite the album's official title, which emphasised group identity, studio efforts on The Beatles captured the work of four increasingly individualised artists who frequently found themselves at odds.

< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 28 %; float: left ; margin: 10px 10px 5px 5px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;"> Into the Music: " The album's last four songs, " Angelou ", " And the Healing Has Begun ", and " It's All in the Game / You Know What They're Writing About " are a veritable tour-de-force with Morrison summoning every vocal trick at his disposal from " Angelou's climactic shouts to the sexually-charged, half-mumbled monologue in " And the Healing Has Begun " to the barely audible whisper that is the album's final sound.

Wilson played and sang on much of the 1971 Surf's Up album and wrote or co-wrote four of the album's ten songs, including the title track, which was a Carl Wilson-produced rerecording of the legendary 1966 SMiLE track.

The album's four singles —" Good Fortune ," " A Place Called Home ," " This is Love " and " You Said Something "— were moderately successful.

Among the album's notable songs were four charting singles.

For similar reasons, the studio-based drummer / composer Herschel Dwellingham played drums on four of the album's six tracks, replacing Gravatt entirely on three of them: on " Non-Stop Home ", Dwellingham and Gravatt played together, with Gravatt the sole drummer only on " 125th Street Congress ".

Noted remix and hip-hop icon Arthur Baker worked very closely with the duo as a consultant, and produced dance remixes of four of the album's singles.

Collins co-wrote all of the album's seven songs ( two with Clinton, one with vocalist Leslyn Bailey and four with Clinton and other band members ) and did the arrangements ( horn arrangements in collaboration with Fred Wesley ).

The album's reception was generally positive, with Allmusic rewarding the album with a rating of four and a half out of five stars and Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B +.

In the time since the album's release, the band reformed for short live performances on four occasions where both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were performing.

Though critical response was mixed, Hex Angel: Utopia / Dystopia ranked # 1 on Germany's Deutsche Alternative Charts ( DAC ) for four weeks after its release, and the album's single, " Pretty Toy ", reached # 18 on the Billboard Alternative Chart during the same year.

Following its release, Lust for Blood ranked at the top of Germany's DAC for four weeks ; the album's single release, " Wound ", ranked on the DAC's singles chart for eight weeks and held the # 1 position for four weeks.

Recorded in three to four weeks, the reason behind the album's creation was due to the interest of guitarist Kerry King, stating the songs were by bands that " made Slayer what it is ", and to keep Slayer in the public eye.

In an April 18, 2012 interview with Blabbermouth, Nergal stated that the new album's possible release date to be in the middle of 2013, and also stated that " But, I can tell you that there are at least three or four rough sketches of songs, just ideas.

The album's second single " Movin ' On ", featured No Limit rapper Silkk Tha Shocker and peaked at number thirty-four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the R & B / Hip-Hop Songs chart respectively.

The album's four outtakes were also cut in single takes.

At the time of his debut album's release, Bieber set records as the only four songs in to the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100, the first artist to send all songs from an album in the Billboard Hot 100.